Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs – messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore – until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

The Thin Man

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING meets MONSIEUR SPADE It's 1932, and Nick and Nora Charles, and their pet schnauzer, Asta, are in New York City…

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Red Harvest

'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times] The Continental Op first heard Personville called…